mâchonner
French, verb/ma.ʃɔ.ne/
mâchonner is spelled M-Â-C-H-O-N-N-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 39 million words in written French, the 198,467th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mâchonner is a French verb meaning “to chew” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mâcher avec difficulté ou négligemment ce qu’on a dans la bouche”.
What does mâchonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to chew
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mâcher avec difficulté ou négligemment ce qu’on a dans la bouche. 2. N’articuler qu’à moitié, ne pas parler distinctement.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mâchonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mâchonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mâchonné participle past
- mâchonne first-person indicative present
- mâchonnes indicative present second-person
- mâchonnons first-person indicative plural
- mâchonnez indicative plural present
- mâchonnent indicative plural present
- mâchonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- mâchonnait imperfect indicative singular
- mâchonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- mâchonniez imperfect indicative plural
- mâchonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- mâchonnai first-person historic indicative
- mâchonnas historic indicative past
- mâchonna historic indicative past
- mâchonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mâchonner?
- /ma.ʃɔ.ne/
- /mɑ.ʃɔ.ne/
- \ma.ʃɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mâchonner in French?
mâchonner appears about once in every 39 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).